First “ Windows XP” doesn’t natively support SATA but only the IDE. We must therefore provide the driver to use your SATA hard drive. Otherwise, this error will appear before the installation of Windows XP : Setup did not find any hard disk drive installed in your computer.
This begs the query “Can Windows XP run on a SATA hard drive?”
Hi shaydar, Windows XP does not support SATA hard drives so you need to load the SATA driver at the F6 prompt. Found this for you, How do I install Windows XP or Windows 2000 to a Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive?
Another common query is “How do I install SATA drivers on Windows XP?”.
Our favorite answer was Windows XP and Windows 2000 do not natively include drivers for SATA controllers (add-in or on-board), so you must install them during the installation of the operating system. The system, motherboard, or controller manufacturer usually supplies these drivers, either on a driver CD or downloadable from their web site.
Will windows xp run on a ssd?
To install Windows XP on a SSD, you need AHCI mode enabled in BIOS/UEFI. Windows XP doesn’t support the SSD TRIM command. The system will run slowly and the SSD will be worn greatly if Windows XP is installed on the SSD.
Yet another inquiry we ran across in our research was “Can I install Windows XP on an SSD?”.
Installing Windows Xp on SSD disk is possibleand with some tweaks it runs quite smoothly . … So before installing you need to choose if you want to install it using AHCI or IDE mode. Keep in mind that AHCI is recommended for SSDs, but you will need additional SATA drivers during the install.
OP, I have XP Pro 64 on a SSD. Make sure you use SSD tweaker and do not defrag a SSD. If you have a platter in the computer in addition to the SSD put your temp directory on the platter. What’s this over provisioning about? Click to expand Flash wear-leveling, independent of the file system, needs extra space to write to.
Our answer is that click to expand Many, but Sandisk’s Ultra Plus, Crucial’s M500, Plextor’s M5S, and Corsair’s Neutron, will be good choices w/o TRIM, and are fairly cheap. Which SSD vendor offers software to perform a manual trim on Windows XP?
I used my first SSD (Intel X-25 M) with Windows XP for about a year (2010-2011) in a work laptop with no problems. Used it for development 8 hours on XP of compiling, creating/deleting large VMs, every day for a year or so, before installing Windows 7, then Linux.
What is Intel Rapid Storage Technology (SATA) driver?
For example : for motherboard ASUS P8Z77-V LX, the driver is in the SATA category and is named ” Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver software “. This software created by Intel is provided with a folder that contains our famous SATA drivers and their configuration files.
How to fix Windows XP did not find any hard disk drive?
Otherwise, this error will appear before the installation of Windows XP : Setup did not find any hard disk drive installed in your computer. – Either by changing the value of the SATA controller in the BIOS of the motherboard. To do so, follow our tutorial named ” Change mode of hard disk controller ” 1. Download the SATA driver of your motherboard.